Wire-winding device



Dec. 7, 1948. c MAGGlACOMo 2,455,377

WIRE WINDING DEVICF 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 21, 1945 1948- c. N.MAGGIACOMO WIRE WINDING DEVICE 2 Sheds-Sheet 2 Filed March 21, 1945 AvVENTOP C/M u/v c E V /V. /Z466/40o/v0 A TroA Patented Dec. 7, 19482,455,377 I WIRE-WINDING DEVICE Chauncey N. Maggiacomo, UnitedstatesArmy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. r r

Application March 21, 1945, Serial No. 4,025 f QT sfjcmms. (01.24240).grGranted under the act of March 3, 1883, as.

The invention describedherein may be manufactured and used by or for theGovernment for governmental purposes, without the pay to me of anyroyalty thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for recovering fieldwire.

In military operations it is often necessary to recover field wire whichhas been laid upon poles or elsewhere. This Wire is wound upon reelscarried by a truck, and heretofore, it has been necessary to have alineman follow the truck to put the tension on the wire necessary toenable it to be properly wound on the reels. This method is slow andalso requires the use of two or more linemen.

It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a device forrapidly recovering field wire and requiring the use of only one man.

A further object is the provision of a line recovering device which canbe readily installed on an ordinary truck without material alteration.

These and other objects are attained by the novel construction andarrangement hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a guide unit used in the device.

Figure 2 is a perspective View of tensioning and reeling units used inthe device.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of another guide unit used in the device.

Referring to the drawings, the field wire recovering device is shown tocomprise a frame having upstanding posts I, having connected theretostruts 2 and 3. Posts I and struts 3 are integral and bowed at 4 toprovide the lower part of a bearing, the upper part of which is providedby a strap 5 secured to post i and strut 3. Journalled in the bearing isa shaft 6 carrying a roller 1. Bars 8, fixed to struts 2 and post I havea portion bowed at 9 to form with post l a bearing for the shaft l0carrying the lower tensioning roller ll.

Supported by struts 3 is a rod l2 upon which is slidably mounted acollar I 3, integral with a rod M, which is bent to form a handle l5.The collar l3 has a pair of projections l1 adapted to extend into tubesl8 carried by U-shaped guide member [6, which has a rod 40 projectingfrom the center thereof and adapted to pass through an aperture 4| inthe collar l3.

A belt carried in a casing l9 drives a reel 20 rotatable on a shaft 2!,the belt being driven by a motor 23, which also drives drum 22. Bothdrums may be driven simultaneously, or they amended April 30, 1928; 370G. 757) may be driven independentlyandqat. various speeds. The shiftsare accomplished by levers 24, 25 and 28.

The two wires bein recovered are wound on different reels. Wire 26passes over roller 1 and is wound on reel 22, and wire 27 passes overroller 1 and under roller l I and is then wound on reel 20.

The wires are guided to the reels by pulleys 36 rotatably mounted onpins 35 which are carried by hangers 34 rotatably resting on heads 33 atone end of studs 32 attached to ball and socket arrangements 3! weldedto the ends of rods 30. The rods 30 are fixed to the upper end of post29, which is mounted on the front of a truck by brackets attached to thegrill.

In operation, to wind two wires on the reels, the tubes iii are raisedfrom the projections I! and the wires inserted in the two sections ofloop I6 defined by the post ll), the wires having been previously passedover the pulleys 36. The wires pass over rolls 1 and H to the reels 20and 22. The operator manipulates the levers 24, 25 and 28 to control themotor and operate either one or both of the reels. The operator is ableto control the speed of the reels to coincide with the speed of thetruck. As the truck moves forward the wire is picked up by the pulleys3B and is wound on the reels with the proper tensioning. It will be seenthat only one operator is required, and no lineman is necessary tofollow the truck to tension the wire. By moving the collar l3 back andforth, the wire can be evenly distributed from one end to the other of areel.

From the above description it will be seen that there has been provideda simple and effective wire recovering device, which can be readily andconveniently installed on almost any truck. The device is simple inoperation, and requires the services of only one operator.

The above description is to be considered as i1- lustrative and notlimitative of the invention of which modifications can be made Withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in theappended claims.

The invention havin been described, what is claimed is:

1. A device for recovering field wire comprising, a frame, a pair ofreels mounted on the frame, means for driving said reels, an upperroller and a lower roller carried by the frame for tensioning wirepassing to the reels, means for manually traversing the winding of theWire from one end of a reel to the other, a post on the frame, a crossarm at the upper end of the post, and swivelly 3 mounted pulleys one ateach end of the cross arm to guide wire to the rollers.

2. A device for recovering field wire comprising, a pair of reels, meansfor driving said reels, tension rollers for the wire mounted above thereels, means for manually traversing the winding of wire from one end ofa reel to the other, a post, and a pair of guide pulleys swivellymounted on the post to guide wire to the rollers and said reels.

3. A device for recovering field wire comprising, a frame, a pair ofreels mounted on the frame, means for driving said reels, an upperroller and a lower roller carried by the frame for tensioning wirepassing to the reels, a post on the frame, a

cross arm at the upper end of the post, and swivelly mounted pulleys oneat each end of the cross reels, a post, and a pair of guide pulleysswivelly mounted on the post to guide wire to the rollers and saidreels.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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